7th District race: Evans applies critical analysis

Neoma Pendergraft

Willard

Only the opportunity to elect a great thinker to Congress prompts me to join the ranks of civic-minded folks who write to the Letters column.

Jim Evans of Republic is offering to serve us as representative of the 7th Congressional District, his first time to run for public office following a lifetime of teaching math and computer science in Springfield schools. At Central High School he had a stellar career teaching the best and brightest attracted to Central as a magnet school and a pioneer in the A+ program of accelerated curriculum.

I've known and admired Jim for decades. As a young man, he built his own home, incorporating new conservation ideas and features such as solar panels and passive heating. Just recently he researched the technology and construction necessary to build an elaborate solar grid in his yard that supplies all fuel needs for the home, plus excess returned to power lines.

Jim applies the same methods of thorough research of facts and critical analysis in coming to conclusions regarding social and political issues. Personally, I know him to be a level-headed, well-reasoned, moderate thinker; not highly partisan, but motivated by a deep sense of civic responsibility and patriotism in its most basic form. In Jim, we have the kind of conscientious, dedicated citizen-participant in democracy that our government so badly needs.

I urge you to vote for Jim Evans in November.

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7th District race: Evans applies critical analysis

Willard Only the opportunity to elect a great thinker to Congress prompts me to join the ranks of civic-minded folks who write to the Letters column.